Word: heeler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tammany Hall could award the next Nobel Prize for literature, it might well choose Scotsman Bruce Marshall. Novelist Marshall (Father Malachy's Miracle, Vespers in Vienna) cannily laces his fiction with all the flourishes of the practicing ward heeler. He is always for the little fellow, cries out loudly against the interests, roots piously for religion, winks broadly at the moral delinquencies of the unfortunate...
Meat & Drink. Shrewd, hard-bitten Bill Boyle believes in machine politics and the everlasting value of the faithful ward-heeler. He was a precinct captain himself before he could vote, rose through the ranks of the Boss Pendergast machine to acting director of police (TIME, Feb. 21). In 1941, Senator Harry Truman appointed him to the counsel staff of his war investigating committee, later made him his personal secretary. Last year Boyle plotted Truman's whistle-stop campaign, insisted on going after what proved to be the decisive farm and labor vote. An Irish-Catholic politician...
...real mystery was still not solved. Why should anyone bother to forge a piddling 254 ballots in overwhelmingly Democratic Bourbon County? Why should brilliant Ed Prichard, a man with a future, try to pull a clumsy fix that would give pause to the lowliest ward heeler...
...Fools' Day, he appointed one John Joseph Connors, a dapper, poker-faced ward heeler, as chairman of the Boston Board of Election Commissioners. The salary: $7,000. In addition to supervising elections, the commission compiles lists of prospective jurors for Suffolk County and is charged with keeping them free of criminals...
Republicans thought it was a sure sign that they would walk off with New York's 47 electoral votes in November. Boss Flynn blamed it all on the "regimented Communists." But an anonymous Democratic ward heeler put his finger on what really happened. Said he: "We got out the voters, but they voted against...